Top 3 Multi-millionaire Companies that Originated from Blogs

Blogs ! Blogging !! Bloggers
!!! You’re well acquainted with those terms I guess. Are you also willing to
join the moving train ? Yeah, it’s a nice idea! Maybe you’ve had a different
mindset that those Blogs you see on the internet are just full of valueless articles and the
Bloggers behind them are only working for some big companies thereby earning only
few dollars a month. I once had the same mindset, which is not exactly like that. There are different types of Bloggers, some are newbies – they are just
getting familiar to the blogging environment thereby they spend time and
money hoping for positive results as soon as possible, some are average bloggers
– they get a tangible amount of traffic, page views and they make a reasonable
amount of money with their Blog, then next, we have the Probloggers – they earn
5-6 figure income monthly, yeah, I mean thousands of dollars and most of them
are well known in the Blogosphere. Finally, we have the Multi-millionaire Business Bloggers –
this very few group of Bloggers have turned their Blogs into a big grown business, a
company where millions of dollars are being generated annually. As a new or
existing Blogger, it’s up to you to decide which category you want to end up
in. In this post, I’ve decided to share with you the top 3 multi-millionaire businesses/companies
that started their life as a mere Blog.

Sitepoint.com started as a blog in
2008 and was originally owned by Matt Mickiewicz. Presently, a big graphics design company –
99designs has now originated from Sitepoint. The Matt Mickiewicz inspired blog led to the creation of 99designs when the
designers in Sitepoint.com community started a graphics design contest, competing with themselves as one of
the best graphics designers. Right now, 99designs is a 64-person company and it is also the
largest online marketplace to outsource graphics design in the world.

->Brief –
99designs emerged as the best graphics design marketplace in the world just
because they had a big existing audience i.e. SitePoint.com. You’ll agree with me
that it’d have been very difficult for 99designs to achieve this success at that short
period of time if they never had a pre-existing audience, which means they would
have to start from nowhere.

-> Lesson – No
matter what the nature of the business you’re planning to start in the nearest future is, I'd advise you to start a blog now, so that when you are ready to launch your business,
you’ll already have an engaged audience and the direct access you have to your
audience might end up turning them to your first clients.

Copyblogger.com was a mere blog, started by Brian Clark in 2006. Before he started this blog, he was an
attorney yet he hated practicing law, that’s why he followed his mind and started
doing what he was passionate about – ‘writing’ and ‘creating useful
content online’ on the “Internet”. Presently, Copyblogger.com is now under (and simply known as)
CopyBlogger Media, which is a 20+ person company owning various online services
and properties which includes – StudioPress (creator of one of the most popular
WordPress framework – “Genesis”), Scribe, Synthesis and many more.

-> Brief –
Brian Clark used his simple and successful blog to launch several other blogs,
services, and companies. No wonder Copyblogger Media (the parent company of all
the online services, brands and properties which started originally from
Copyblogger.com) is now a multi-millionaire company. Imagine that Brian Clark
stuck only to CopyBlogger.com, he wouldn’t be as successful as he is today and
maybe there wouldn’t be a company named CopyBlogger Media.

-> Lesson – Use
your Blog as a platform to launch other businesses, when you have a successful
blog, don’t just sit down and relax because it is successful, launch other
blogs, services or businesses from it and you’ll realize you’re already turning
your blog into a multi-millionaire company.

Quicksprout.com was started by
Neil Patel in 2007 and he published his first post on the blog in April that
same year. Before Neil started Quicksprout, he had difficulties making money
online. Even after he started Quicksprout, he was still occupied with some
other projects (Crazy Eggs and some sorts of softwares) just to ensure the
success of his business. Finally, from Quicksproutto -> Crazy Egg and then Crazy Egg to
-> KISSmetrics. Yeah, KISSmetrics is the end product of Neil Patel inspired
blog - Quicksprout.com. Presently, KISSmetrics is a 27-person analytics company
and also, the most sought-after SEO consultant company in the world.

-> Brief – At
times, things doesn’t seem the way we expect but we don’t have to give up when
it happens like that. Neil made a small fortune through his marketing
consultancy business, but still he didn't like the work so he dived into the software
business instead, which he liked, and succeeded at. This shows how important
passion, patience and commitment is when we are into any online business.

-> Lesson – Please,
don’t get carried away by blogging alone. As you are into the blogging
business, open your eyes wide open, think outside the box and come up with a
tool, software, app or something else that will be very useful for your
audience, and at the same time, that will bring a very high return on
investment.

Well, as
explained earlier in the post, you’ll see that Blogging has a very high return
on investment (ROI) when compared to other online businesses. The main reason
why the companies above are now multi-millionaires is the fact that they once
had a Blog with awesome number of followers (audience) to kickstart their businesses. Get me right, it is not that they won’t be successful if they never started as
blogs but it wouldn’t be that fast and possible if otherwise. The main point and summary of
this post is that - if you’re planning to start a business or company in the
future, start it as a blog now so that when you’re ready to venture into the
business fully in the future, you’ll have an engaged audience that will help take
it to the next level.

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Author:
Ayoola Stephen

A young gentleman who's got great passion for Technology as a whole, Computer, Gadgets, Internet and Blogging. I have an Entertainment Blog which you can visit here - Curatainment. You can add me up on Facebook to know more about me! Thanks for reading!

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